04-10-2015 09:55 via news.yahoo.com

Tensions flare between Guinea-Bissau president and new premier

Guinea-Bissau's president on Saturday accused the new prime minister of overstepping his constitutional bounds by claiming the right to name the cabinet, suggesting a months-old political crisis in the coup-prone West African state is not over. President Jose Maria Vaz said in a statement it was the head of state's prerogative to decided the structure of the cabinet and review the names proposed for ministerial appointments by his prime minister. "The statement of the prime minister, Carlos Corr
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